Recovered image on bigger USB HDD won't boot (BSOD)

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Hello there,

I have following problem: I want to be able to swap to a working disk in case of HDD Failure, so I (on an XP system)

- do the whole disk backup on an external USB HDD using Acronis TI Home 2011

- to try if it works, with the original disk still runing OK, I take the USB HDD to another PC and copy it there. From there, using Acronis TI Home 2011, I recover on the USB HDD used to bring the image.

- I bring this USB HDD back to the backed up computer and choose to boot from the USB HDD in BIOS.
Windows starts to boot with the Windows logo, but after a while, I get a short blue screen of death a the system restarts and starts to boot again.

So what Im doing wrong, I dont wont to get in this situation in case of real HDD failure, I want to be able to just restore,swap and go.

Thanks anybody for Help!

Tue, 03/08/2011 - 19:53
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Windows XP will not boot directly from USB-connected disk unless you tune it to do so (google boot xp from usb). To test the restore, you need to get an internal disk (sata or ide, depending on your motherboard's ports), install it instead of your current one, boot from acronis CD and recover from the external USB containing the backup.

Tue, 03/08/2011 - 21:36